Reaganism of the Week

Reaganism of the Week

Reaganism of the Week

Marilyn Quayle recently visited New Hampshire to campaign for her husband and talk about education. Over the course of a three-day tour, the former second lady complained about school textbooks being dumbed down. "Janis Joplin should not get more play in a history book than George Washington," Mrs. Quayle said at one of her appearances, according to a report in the Concord Monitor. I called the Quayle command center a week ago to try to find out whether such a textbook actually exists--something I very seriously doubt. Communications director Jonathan Baron said he'd ask the candidate's wife where she got the example. That was a week ago …